"Altogether him make 'm six
tens pounds and two fella pounds gold money," was his translation of sixty-two pounds of wages.
They are most at rest between three and four o'clock in the morning, although even then there are usually
ten calls a minute.
He always wears a conspicuous uniform; he can always be found when he is wanted, for he sticks closely to his post at the front door; he is as polite as a duke; he speaks from four to
ten languages; he is your surest help and refuge in time of trouble or perplexity.
'I will have
ten kisses from the Princess,' answered the Swineherd.
"I will have
ten kisses from the Princess," said the swineherd.
Along the end of the meadow stood the booths for the different bands of archers, for the King's yeomen were divided into companies of fourscore men, and each company had a captain over it; so on the bright greensward stood
ten booths of striped canvas, a booth for each band of the royal archers, and at the peak of each fluttered a flag in the mellow air, and the flag was the color that belonged to the captain of each band.
Ten thousand men had been engaged in that titanic struggle, and upon the field of battle lay three thousand dead.
Taking it "by and large," as the sailors say, we had a pleasant
ten days' run from New York to the Azores islands--not a fast run, for the distance is only twenty-four hundred miles, but a right pleasant one in the main.
And finally, the terrible white man had fined him and Balesuna village
ten thousand cocoanuts.
The contemporary reader has all the advantage of
ten years' experience since this story was imagined.
Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself: that causeth wholesome weariness, and is poppy to the soul.
Supposing that among my forty warriors there should be found at least
ten stupid ones --
ten who will allow themselves to be killed one after the other, from mere folly?